Sponsors help to reward innovation and expertise
Prosperity can come from austerity. That’s the optimistic view of key sponsors of this year’s CN Awards who collectively believe the challenging economic conditions, particularly in the public sector, will create opportunity for resellers willing to embrace solutions selling and new Cloud based applications. And one thing’s for certain - this informed group believe the resilience, creativity and intelligence that exists in the UK ICT channel will play an important role in the economic recovery that is expected to gather pace in the next two years.
Kcom, sponsor of the Supply and Service Category believes that the reseller channel is the best route by which end user SMEs can access the ITC services they require to support their business. Claire Holmes, Channel Partner Marketing Manager, commented: “Over the next 12 months, SMEs’ demand for ITC services will be driven by a combination of economic conditions, plus the need for services such as unifi ed communications/collaboration services. Resellers will have a key role in the delivery of these ITC services.”
Karsten Hald Pedersen, Managing Director of UK and Ireland at headset giant Jabra agrees that channel partners can maximise on the rapidly growing unifi ed communications growth in the year ahead. “Jabra is once again delighted to be sponsoring the UC category at the Comms National Awards. Partners play a vital role in our market strategy, driving sales and business growth in the UK. The unifi ed communications (UC) market is growing rapidly and through UC-optimised audio devices, our partners can take full advantage of this opportunity.”
Converged network specialist Exponential-e, sponsor of the Reseller Hosted/Managed Services Category, is convinced the coming year is a vital period for resellers. “With more cloud service adoption taking place, resellers need to be able to take advantage of this new way of delivering services,” said Richard Clothier Channel Marketing Manager. “With our cloud-based PowerNGNplus business Internet product now available to channel, partners can view and control the bandwidth allocated to their customer’s converged services – whether they be VoIP, Video, SaaS or anything else.”
Supporting the industry is also the premise of a new award this year, The Comms Dealer Special Award. Sponsored by Cable & Wireless Worldwide this award will recognise one individual who has made a substantial contribution to the channel during the 12 months since October 2011.
Pete Tomlinson, Director of Partners at Cable & Wireless Worldwide said: “Navigating through testing economic times has required creativity, innovation, tenacity and perseverance. The opportunity for network based services has never been greater and by leveraging relationships and technology, channel businesses can only continue to go from strength to strength The Channel contains some of the most talented individuals in the UK today and we are honoured to be able to recognise this success.”
CONTACTS
Sponsorship: Michael O’Brien 01895 454 444 07968 369 372
mobrien@bpl-business.com
Simon Turton 01895 454 603 07759 731 134
sturton@bpl-business.com
Entries/Judging Nigel Sergent 07712 781 106
nsergent@bpl-business.com FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE COMMS NATIONAL AWARDS VISIT
WWW.CNAWARDS.COM
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